Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school located on 471 acres (1.9 km²) in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, one hour north of Boston.

School's origins and philosophy

The school was established in 1781 by John and Elizabeth Phillips. It shares a time-honored rivalry with its sister school, Phillips Academy, also known as Andover. Like Andover, the Academy's seal features the symbols of bees, a beehive, and a sun. Also similar to Andover, the school's Latin mottoes areFinis Origine Pendet (meaning "the end depends upon the beginning,") and Non Sibi (meaning "Not for ones self"). The Deed of Gift, written by John Phillips at the founding of the school, articulates a second pedagogical philosophy in addition to that of self-sacrifice: "Though goodness without knowledge is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous." Every year, the principal is required to speak on this theme at the school's opening assembly.

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